Two articles just out touching on topics in EItheR…

First, check out Matt Continetti’s profile of Jon Tester, who’s running to unseat Sen. Conrad Burns in Montana. Continetti’s quite right that, given the Democrats’ resurgence in the West: “Tester just may end up being the new face of the Democratic party.”

Second, check out the New Jersey Star Ledger, where a columnist proclaims: “Of the hundreds of thousands of words employed in this year’s election campaign, none is more likely to have an impact on post-election politics than Dick Armey’s characterization of Christian evangelicals in the Bush Republican Party as ‘thugs.’”